An Dark amythest dragon flew up with full speed and human was clinging to it's head, Clinging for life. Afterall He hadn't expected it to be this tormenting, and especially that torment will perceive for another few minutes at that.
Natalie's speed was much faster when transversing horizontaly, afterall swaying with wind was easy but straight up climb was not helping at all, It required maximum strength to just lift body up and now her back was burning with pain.
This was her first flight as well, Difficult challange indeed. But surprisingly she didn't worry too much.
they had covered almost a mile in few minutes and top was just up ahead, They needed to bear for few moments.
With vigour to reach the top, Natalie felt invigorated as she sped up. It didn't take long before he giagantic figure flew by the weir and hovered as she observed scenery with glimfull grin. This crowning achievement felt sweet.
Eren too, looked ahead. A wide crest of the river that flowed long, long way. Surrounding just as he expected, nothing but a green forest with trees and hidden dangers.
Below everything was just green, just like ahead. Eren wasn't too disappointed, afterall this was the first step and it was a success.
Natalie landed and transformed back into her human form instant, depleted with most of her mana which caused some fatigue.
Eren nearly fell of the cliff with her abrupt change but he too knew how to fly, his wings spread wide as he manuevered swiftly to floor with ava and eva in his arms.
They weren't too big but neither they were small, with eren's newly enhanced strength he didn't find weight to be problem but their sizes were hard to grasp with his human arms and they too felt uncomfortable, so first thing they did was jump away into freedom.
They finally breathed the relaxation, Natalie slumped on ground to relax and so did eren. Their situation had significantly improved, ofcourse there was a chance of flying type of monster rushing out of forest to dive below. Afterall the place below was the heavenly nurturing environment they instinctively seeked and this was the shorter and safest route to that, just a jump below and rest was gravity.
But only flying monsters could do so, they posed the most danger to eren and Natalie right now, Even then they just wanted to relax a bit. obviously They couldn't get a moment of rest when growling ava and eva asked their attention, Following their angry gaze eren looked at thick landscape of trees with no one in sight.
" Whoa, People here!!, That's shocking." A young man walked out of trees.Despite his statement he didn't look shocked, rather he looked intrigued and excited.
Eren and Natalie took the basic battle stance, their initial goal was to find a civilian who can show them the way but this was not exactly that simple.
Any Human or asura, Outside the white forest would've been fine but here, Especially in central region, where only strong can set foot, meeting anyone was dangerous.
And to make it worse, he was pale white with blood red eyes. Their shock and fear was obvious, but they were resolute.
But when second presense came, it became increasingly difficult to breath. Another man, looked rough and dangerous yet docile from the shade. His presenes exerted absolute control over surrounding, Which left eren and Natalie unwantingly freezed. They couldn't move, much less bring themselves to breath again.
And then he revealed himself, A mountain of an individual came out, 6'4" Tall with bulky musculature and he too had same pale white face and blood red eyes.
He looked giant compared with the boy standing beside who was already 6 feet tall, He was strong beyond comprehension and held Eren's and Natalie's life with just mere presence.
He was a blue realm cultivator. The instant that eren realised the unfair situation, his heart raced and thoughts became chaotic. His first and only reasoning was to run but how?, With an actual powerhouse standing right ahead. There was no chance to outrun him. Especially when Natalie was half exhausted.
Controlling his instincts in check, Eren leveled his emotions. He looked at the boy beside the giant, he looked comparatively docile and somewhat capable of reasoning. Atleast that's what eren hoped but that boy was green realm cultivator and even more with dangerous exciting gleam on his face. He was enjoying this and eren knew it in an instant, If giant was supposed physically strengthened adversary then this boy was complete opposite, Weak and shrewd. His eyes spoke more schemes, either way they were far more dangerous. Eren's instincts screamed with fear yet he couldn't move.
Tiny part of his consciousness paced with action,
' Take ava and eva with you.' His thoughts travelled directly in Natalie's head and next second, giant Black wings grew wide.
Natalie didn't had any time to understand how or what?, When she felt a powerful kick in her stomach and heavy gust of wind produced by Black wings flying her off to crest along with furry beasts.
Natalie blinked multiple time, trying to understand what happened but the situation at hand didn't allow her. Her eyes blinked again when she saw a black ring flying to her. Her thoughts leveled to Eren's understanding in an instant and instant that it did, She took the ring and brought an amythest mana stone of black ring and golden cube from her own ring. In matter of second she placed mana stone in golden cube while falling off the cliff, her eyes locked on ava and eva who struggled to maintain posture and she grabbed them into a hug. Her eyes looked at top of cliff that now looked distant,
" ERENNN...." She screamed but instead of giant black winged figure, Only a simple message came from him.
' Go.'
Natalie hesitated, her heart felt cluched in grip tighly. What was she even supposed to in a situation like this? They were falling hard as strong wind howled in her ears, the cliff was already far and her options were gone.
She could've transformed to reach eren but that was just stupid after what eren did. Natalie knew how small of a window this was.
Just then a small black dot rose up in sky, Natalie's eyes shone with hope only to be painted with dread. Her eyes blinked once yet that ginat figure already seemed ready to grab her neck. Guilt gripped her heart yet with a simple tap, golden halo enveloped and she was gone before a cold grip could reach her neck.
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On the cliff, Eren was apprehended on ground and the boy sat above him with goofy smile.
" Oh, They're gone, Lucky." Despite his smile, His voice felt chilly but not long and then he was again, just calmly smiling.
The giant landed before him with sharp vampire wings on his lower back and kneeled down, head bowed in prostration.
" I'm sorry young master, I failed to catch them." His tone sounded frightened, as if his profound strength meant nothing before this child.
And the addressed young master continued smiling with madness in his eyes.
" It's ok to fail sometime, It would be meaningful to learn from the mistakes." Young master approached him with silent footsteps and held his face up with his leg.
" Did you learn anything, Tommy?"
" Yes.. yes young master.." The giant grabbed his master's leg and took it above his head, his eyes and words held nothing but deep fear rooted in his very being.
" Oh, You do!!, That's great, lift your head." Young master watched as giant raised his head.
" Then what will you do for your mistake."
Tommy gulped, the man before him sounded pleasant especially with that annoyingly beautiful smile but tommy knew better.
even thought he knew what awaited him, he replied to young masters wishes.
" Whatever you ask of me young master." Yes, this was a trap and even knowing it, Tommy couldn't do anything.
" Hmmm... Let me think, Since it's not that big of a deal and you're being so understanding.
How about your daughter." Giant's face visibly lost the blood and luster, his eyes shook uncontrollably. His being shook like a dried up leaf, Ready to wither at any moment.
" Haha... god tommy, It was a joke. She's barely 10, I was obviously joking." Despite his complete change of tone and laughter, Atmosphere remained clogged in tension.
Tommy smiled, atleast he tried with best effort to hide his fear, anxiety and somewhat anger.
" Can't think of anything, You're just too valuable and competent." Young master ignored that, leaving giant to kneel and turned back to the boy who was still unable to stand up from ground with force pressing down on him, his attention had never left eren for a second.
" Hey there friend, I'm jack reaper." pressure on eren lessened as he found able to move.
eren stood up with fear,anger, heavy breaths and rapid heart, he needed to control his emotions to atleast hold a conversation with this people.
They looked eager to talk, but their eyes showed something else. Eren maintained his posture, dismissed his wings and cleared the dust off his clothings as he stared at smiling vampire with concern.
" Eren salvatore."
" Young master, please allow me to teach him some manners, This lowlife insect doesn't understand your magnanimity." Tommy's eyes stared hole in Eren with nothing but disgust and rage.
" You'll do no such thing, And that's the second mistake you've done today, Interrupting me." Supposed smiling young master had never sounded to terryfying to giant. Tommy smashed his head on ground with his lips sealed and became stale.
" Better." Young master again looked at eren, his expression softened, complete opposite to the earlier arrogant killing glaze.
" So eren salvatore, We Just came here to see if rumors were true.
And it seems it true for better or worse, That terrifying beast is gone." Eren looked at jack, his eyes blinked with understanding and sure, jack just wanted that.
Before eren could say anything, deny or accept- jack spoke,
" You killed that monster?" Giant was surprised and so was eren.
" What monster." Eren composed his demeanour and acted surprised, he didn't wanted to give any hint or doubt to this people, who seeked knowledge of Alena's existence and her disappearance.
" I was teleporting to wingwild's beach with my girl and somehow came here,
And you know that guy." Eren looked at tommy as he mimicked a casual jolly tone with apologetic smile.
" You can understand why I did what I did?, I mean he's scary as hell and all I wanted to do was just run away.
But family, Always the priority.
I'm sorry if I acted disrespectfully." Eren really needed him to buy this shit, for eren to survive.
" Well, He is quite an eyesore.
But isn't wingwild in the dragonar kingdom."
" Yes ofcourse."
Jack was confused, he didn't like how this conversation was progressing.
" Eren, you do know this is a vampire continent, Right?"
" Huh.." Eren's expression changed to shock and then to mirth,
" You're joking, Come on this must be arazona forest and not another continent.
Even for Stanger you suck at joking." Eren laughed, denied and played it perfectly.
" I'm not." Jack's serious face, gave some clarity to eren. His happy expression slowly withered as shock and bewilderment took place, his eyes widened in horror as he instinctively took few step back.
" No, It can't be....It can't be...Shit shit shit.."
" And you're currently in white forest." Eren couldn't exactly mimick the blood washing off his face, but he needed to convince them.
Eren purposely yet made it seem as he lost his footing and fell on his butt with shit scared eyes.
" This..This..." Eren mumbled, Yet he found words stuck in his throat and jack felt pity to his disheaveled state, he walked to eren and kneeled with a smile.
" Don't worry we'll send you right back." Eren showed bright smile, energetically as he stood up and shook Jack's hand.
" Thank you so much, Thank god you're here, You can't imagine how relieved I am. I can't thank you enough." Eren jolted with excited enthusiasm and appreciation.
" No problem and might I also suggest that. Instead of wingwild beach, you should visit daimor beach. it's close and only VIP personal, so you can also enjoy the quality time uninterrupted."
" That's great, That I'll do." Eren smiled even more greatfully, to appease this vampires enough that he would slip off by Nick.
But suddenly his hope felt cold, eren kept his smile up and to his response. Jack smiled, till he couldn't bear it in and broke into hilarious laughter. So much so that his eyes shone with tear.
Eren's eyes darkened as he realised his mistake, A life threatening simple mistake.
" It's not there, is it?" Jack laughed hard as he shook his head in reply, It itched eren how one mistake turned the situation upside down.
Because he didn't new georaphy of dragon continent and dragonar kingdom, Either there was no daimore beach or it wasn't close. Eren made mistake for playing his cards too early and it was about time to pay.
Jack controlled his laugh, yet smile still sneakering a cheeky gleam.
" It's here, Close. Very close."
yes, Eren was Very close. But surprisingly the stranger young master turned out to be not just dangerous but even sharp witted.
It trapped eren in his own game.
" So what now?" Eren dropped all pretense, his eyes had never showed such darkness yet to jack, it meant nothing.
" We can always talk it out."
" Cut the crap." Eren jolted in anger, Now his well placed lies were taken off, he hoped by playing the guy stuck in unforeseen circumstances would gain him some comfort. Just like Natalie.
But both situation were wildly apart, These guys carried the genetical bloodthirst which somewhat affected their reasoning, eren and Alena lacked that thankfully,
But at the end his play ended shortly and now these two strangers had no reason to play nice, Ofcourse they could if they were actually nice.
Eren really hoped it to be true but his instincts said otherwise. he felt annoyed seeing jack calmly trying to converse, it made his paranoia stabbing even deeper with each second like contant struggle to predict the inevitable.
Jack, who never once showed any other expression than polite smile, just stopped smiling.
His feature were sharp, maybe because of his smile but eren never realised how handsome he looked, Obviously his charm magnatised beside the brute giant with round face.
But seeing him stoic left eren bewildered, jack's eyes crept in curved smile were now open wide, clear as blood and infinitely laced with poison of madness.
His personification of noble, gentle young master held a veil to this bloodthirsty creature who wore the skin of asura. But he wasn't just like any other, his madness didn't revolve around satisfaction of blood and thirst only, but even more. He seeked absolute control.
Eren wasn't giving any.
And watching him standing with plain expression, Invoked deep sense of fear within eren's heart. He was something eren desperately tried to be, A being with clear goal.
Eren realised why his heart jumped erratically, why his hands felt cold and why he just instinctively hated him.
Eren wanted to kill few people but his hatred didn't cloud his reasoning, he couldn't be a killer who didn't care for consequences yet he desperately hoped.
But all that thoughts and his meager strength of yellow core held nothing before vampiric young master. His eyes widened when the danger vanished before his eyes and elevated exponentially as he found sharp canine teeth deeply sunken in his neck.
" Ghaahhh..."
With a sharp stabbing pain and muddled thoughts, his body reacted in self defence as he pushed his elongated canine teeth into Jack's shoulder.
To take a last stand, But it fell short. His vision became blurry before turning dark.
Eren's head fell and his decapitated body soon after.